Re: [Xen-devel] Re: GSoC 2010 - Migration from memory ballooning tomemory hotplug in Xen

[Daniel Kiper <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 03:17:57PM +1000, James Harper wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 08:58:01AM +1000, James Harper wrote:
> > > > While you can do that the value is not very large because you
> > > > could just start the guests with more memory, but ballooned in
> > > > the first place (so that they don't actually use it)
> > >
> > > I think hotplug is a better method for adding memory for Windows.
> >
> > Maybe in the future I write somthing for Windows...
>
> For Windows, I believe you would need to emulate actual hotplug of
> memory like a physical machine, using ACPI. It's only supported on
> Enterprise versions of Windows too.

In 99.9% yes because it is normal way of configuring devices in Windows.
However, to take final decision I must read some docs and do some tests.

Daniel

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